Homemade Power Drink

Hey, everybody. Jimmy Kennedy here with Go Outside. We’re on Lake Champlain. Just saw a nice one. Roll for real. And we’re going to do some fishing soon and they’re teasing us right now. But I want to show you how to make a homemade Gatorade sports drink. And this is a really clean, healthy drink. It’s a healthy alternative to some of the drinks you can get in the stores.
And, you know, those are fine too. But take a little time. Make this at home, make it in the boat like we’re doing today, you know, with the family. I think you’ll be happy. It’s super, super tasty and it’s great for you. I mean, this is a great way to recharge, great way to stay hydrated when it’s hot during the summer months and it gives you plenty of minerals, plenty of magnesium, vitamin C, because we’re using oranges, lemons and limes.
That’s my favorite. But you could put grapefruit, watermelon, anything in here. You know, if you have a blender, there’s really no end to what all you can put into this to make it make it tasty. I’m just using real good water. We have well water at home. I got that. And this is a this is a must for this. This is Himalayan pink salt.
This has like 80 something minerals that are kind of the same as your body has basically. And it’s it’s a great salt to use because it’s very mineral rich. And that’s why we’re using that. And I use some cayenne pepper just this is a lot, but you don’t need to use that much. And this actually helps keep you keeps you cool in the summer it’s it helps metabolism raises your metabolism helps with digestive system and even heart function.
So I mean, we don’t use a lot, but it also to me, it just gives it a good flavor. I like the spice of this drink and sometimes I add a little extra and also some Vermont maple syrup, of course. You can use honey in here if you want and, you know, molasses. But we’re in Vermont, maple syrup is right here.
And I love this stuff. It’s super easy to make. I got three cups of water and I kind of just eye this I mean, I’ve already got like three quarters of a cup, but we want to get closer to like a cup, cup and a half of oranges. And I have this little masher here that works really well, but you can do this by hand, too.
You don’t have to do all this. But it is pretty portable too. So oranges, lemons, limes. Now we’re up to about a cup, but we’re going to keep going on a little bit. Okay. So we’ve got a little over a cup of orange juice, lemon and lime juice here, and it’s a nice and fresh squeeze, as you saw.
And then we’re going to go in with our salt. We don’t need a lot of this, but we’re going to add that’s going to be about probably quarter to a half teaspoon. And what I usually do here is I’ll stir this up or just let it sit a little bit. And just let the salt dissolve but by the time everything else is in there, it’s going to be good to go.
And this maple syrup can just do that. It’s about three teaspoons or a tablespoon or something, or maybe a little extra. It’s good stuff and then again, with this, you don’t need a lot. Just a little sprinkling on top. Ooh, that might be too much. It’s all right. So we’ve got our salt, we’ve got our maple syrup, cayenne, and just add the water.
Four cups, one quart right on the nose. We’ll have the recipe on the website. And like a lot of our recipes, just make this your own. Add what you like. Kids like watermelon, blend up some watermelon, put it in here. Cantelope, I mean anything. Any juice is really good too. This looks and tastes a little bit like some of the drinks you buy in the store but it is so much healthier, it’s so tasty I promise.
This as you saw, is really, really easy too. Try this at home and let me know your variations. You come up with something good in this thing, let us know about it. I think you’ll like this. Thank you. See you next time.